On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/25/10 8:30 AM, "Patryk Zawadzki" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I bet >> at least one person in the audience is offended when they see the >> presenter using a Mac. Or sporting a Windows t-shirt. Or using an >> iPod. Or mentioning that Apple did something better than GNOME. >> "Security, seize and escort the speaker out of the building." :) > > By the way: I would certainly recommend that anyone who's offended by a > presenter using a Mac, wearing a Windows t-shirt, or both at the same time, > to take their concerns directly and immediately to the Board of Directors. > > I would suggest that the Board of Directors tell them to "Get a grip." > > Is it _that_ difficult to distinguish between the sort of offense that > someone like Celeste Lyn Paul, a KDE board member, expressed when she wrote > ( http://identi.ca/notice/6304540)... > > "Do men really think RMSs virgin joke at #gcds was not sexist? Very > disappointed in FLOSS comm chatter about this."
I'd say it was more stupid than sexist. He planned it to be a religious joke but ended up with a pile of crap. > ...on the one hand, and the "offense" that someone who feels a speaker is > not being "pure" enough, or something, by using a "non-free-software- > movement-approved" piece of hardware, or wearing a t-shirt bearing the logo > of a "non-free-software-movement-approved" company, on the other? Do you see > no distinction between the two, Patryk? Are you trying to start a flame war, or are you just bored? Stop trying to convince me that I'm defending bad behavior as I'm not. I said the rules were too vague to be considered a policy. A person hating Mono or C# is just as covered as a person who is a target of racist comments. That's why the rules are bad. I'd add that if GNOME as a community needs a written "don't be a total jerk" policy, we should probably consider going to circus instead of the conferences ;) (rest of quotes removed to put out the flames) -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
